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Foundational Texts of World Literature

Dominique Jullien

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Description:What makes a world author? How did Homer become a -cosmopolitan- author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts? What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader? How do past and more recent translations of Dantes "Commedia" help us to rethink the changing definitions of world literature? How did the Alexander romance adapt to an Islamic context? How did Tassos epic adapt to a later cultural context dominated by the -Turkish Fear-? What shaped the Wests first impression of "The Tale of Genji"? How does the Ovidian myth of Arachne migrate from Japan to the Caribbean? What are the foundational metaphors at the root of Goethes "weltliteratur" paradigm? What happens when cultures import canonical texts for lack of their own? By what process does an eccentric writer reconstruct a new foundational text from heterogeneous fragments of other cultures? How did literary criticism contribute to the canonization of the "Thousand and One Nights" in Western literature? What is left of the primacy of the national language when writers are published simultaneously in various translations? How do modern misreadings shape our understanding of national epics and ensure their survival? World literature, first intuited in Goethes foundational idea of "weltliteratur" as literature that seeks to transcend national boundaries, is viewed here in its essential mobility and migratory capacity, which relies on the centrality of the reading act. This volume focuses on foundational texts as they are read across cultures, languages and historical contexts. Its goal is to reflect on canonical texts - from Homers "Odyssey" to Murakamis "Genji," from Cervantes to Mayan hieroglyphs, from Dante to Coetzee, from Goethe to Lezama Lima, from the "Thousand and One Nights" to Jorge Luis Borges - in a global perspective: how they are translated, appropriated, transformed, how they travel across different cultures and languages, their foundational status evolving accordingly in a post-European world. "Foundational Texts of World Literature" includes contributions by Gerardo Aldana, Sandra Bermann, Piero Boitani, Michael Emmerich, Azadeh Yamini Hamedani, Stefan Helgesson, Paulo Lemos Horta, Juan Pablo Lupi, Peter Madsen, Ulrich Marzolph, Suzanne Said, Evanghelia Stead, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, and Richard Van Leeuwen."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Foundational Texts of World Literature. To get started finding Foundational Texts of World Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 240

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Heinemann Publishing

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1299422780

Description: What makes a world author? How did Homer become a -cosmopolitan- author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts? What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader? How do past and more recent translations of Dantes "Commedia" help us to rethink the changing definitions of world literature? How did the Alexander romance adapt to an Islamic context? How did Tassos epic adapt to a later cultural context dominated by the -Turkish Fear-? What shaped the Wests first impression of "The Tale of Genji"? How does the Ovidian myth of Arachne migrate from Japan to the Caribbean? What are the foundational metaphors at the root of Goethes "weltliteratur" paradigm? What happens when cultures import canonical texts for lack of their own? By what process does an eccentric writer reconstruct a new foundational text from heterogeneous fragments of other cultures? How did literary criticism contribute to the canonization of the "Thousand and One Nights" in Western literature? What is left of the primacy of the national language when writers are published simultaneously in various translations? How do modern misreadings shape our understanding of national epics and ensure their survival? World literature, first intuited in Goethes foundational idea of "weltliteratur" as literature that seeks to transcend national boundaries, is viewed here in its essential mobility and migratory capacity, which relies on the centrality of the reading act. This volume focuses on foundational texts as they are read across cultures, languages and historical contexts. Its goal is to reflect on canonical texts - from Homers "Odyssey" to Murakamis "Genji," from Cervantes to Mayan hieroglyphs, from Dante to Coetzee, from Goethe to Lezama Lima, from the "Thousand and One Nights" to Jorge Luis Borges - in a global perspective: how they are translated, appropriated, transformed, how they travel across different cultures and languages, their foundational status evolving accordingly in a post-European world. "Foundational Texts of World Literature" includes contributions by Gerardo Aldana, Sandra Bermann, Piero Boitani, Michael Emmerich, Azadeh Yamini Hamedani, Stefan Helgesson, Paulo Lemos Horta, Juan Pablo Lupi, Peter Madsen, Ulrich Marzolph, Suzanne Said, Evanghelia Stead, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, and Richard Van Leeuwen."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Foundational Texts of World Literature. To get started finding Foundational Texts of World Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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